Practicing to Take the GRE Psychology Test: The Only Guide Containing an Actual GRE Psychology Test

by Educational Testing Service

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446395714
• ISBN13: 9780446395717
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 69 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Expensive since you can get a practice test from ETS online

Its a good book in that you do receive a real GRE. However, ETS provides an online practice that has an exam. The best strategy is to take the online (pdf from gre.org) practice test and find out the concentration of questions and your level of comfort with the topics. The fields that you have most difficulty with will require more practice and memorization. After review of this material in your Intro Psych text and other category specific books (Cognitive, Developmental, Personality, Social, Behavioral, Stats and Neuro) take the Book test under timed conditions. The intevening period of time should wash out the information from the online test. Take that again. PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! No better way of pumping up your scores. As with most GREs, if you take at least 4 or 5 practice (deliberate practice) tests, you will see that your scores should increase greatly. The stats quesitons on the exam are NOT formidable though a recent stats course would help.You should do fine (if you are a decent Psych undergrad) with a few weeks of review. If you have not had some of the requisite topical courses, you may want to review a little bit further than an Intro Psych text.

Good practice, but don't assume it's an accurate predictor

Because this book if out of print it may be hard to find and/or people are asking ridicules prices for it. Keep in mind this book only contains ONE practice. When you sign up for the psych GRE you get one free one as well. Although it's nice to have an actual test to get a feel for the type of questions on the exam...don't assume that because it's an actual GRE test that it will provide you with an accurate indication of your score. I scored a 680 on this exam which was in the 90th percentile. However, on the actual exam I only scored a 600. Although I don't blame this book for "decreasing" my score.. just keep in mind that this is an OLD test and that because it's an old test a lot of the study aids (like Kaplan and Princeton Review) have designed their material with this exact test and these exact questions in mind, therefore giving you the impression that the test is easier than it is. I found the actual psych GREs to be MUCH harder than any of the practice tests ETS has put out. I recommend this book because it gives you a real feel for the exam and because any type of study material is going to be beneficial... however, keep in mind that your scores on this test will probably be much more inflated than the actual exam if you have spent time reading through study aids...as every single one of these questions has been answered throughly in retrospect by Kaplan and Princeton Review.

Good practice

This book is good practice and accurately reflects the realGRE. Since it's written by the same people who write the test it givesa fair representation of the content. The only negative is that there is only one pracitce test.

A must have for GRE Psychology test prep.

Using the test samples provided gives you a good "feel" for the real exam. Gives you a taste of what the real test will be like.